~ Before the school semester started, visiting the grandmother who raised her was something Sierra Summers had long planned with her family.
She didn’t bring much luggage; most of the space was taken up by prepared gifts.
Grandma had clothes for her to change into, so a small suitcase was enough.
From Beldon to Alvista, it takes about an hour by plane.
When Sierra Summers got off the plane, it was precisely two-thirty in the afternoon, and she took a cab back to Grandma’s house.
Sierra dragged her suitcase, got off the car, paid the fare, and first looked at the apartment complex.
Although she had only been away for two months, she still missed this place where she had lived since childhood.
On her way, Sierra greeted Grandma and Grandpa and various aunts and uncles.
The complex was large, but everyone had great neighborly relations, and many people Sierra knew well.
“Oh, Sierra is back!”
“Getting more beautiful by the day!”
“Turned out to be so graceful and charming!”
…
Sierra Summers grew up living here, spending her formative middle school and high school years.
Before she was taken back to the Summers Family, Sierra lived with Grandma Jennings.
Her brother told her that when she was four, she got lost from the Summers Family, and despite searching for a long time, they couldn’t find her.
Sierra’s childhood memories were truly hazy; she only remembered going to sleep and waking up in a strange place with unfamiliar people.
Before she had a chance to feel frightened, the person holding her was discovered by Grandma Jennings and Uncle Yates and instantly fled.
Grandma Jennings took her to the police station, and Sierra provided some personal information, but for unknown reasons, there was never word of her family coming to retrieve her.
Eventually, Grandma Jennings adopted her, and she lived here ever since.
In her spare time, Sierra often read novels; when the Summers Family found her, she really felt like her life was straight out of a story.
At eighteen, just having become an adult, she was found by her biological parents and brother, who told her she was the daughter of the Summers Family.
The Summers Family, the Summers Family of Beldon.
A family she couldn’t even imagine as a wealthy magnate.
And she herself was the unimaginable daughter of that wealthy family.
From the outside, Sierra appeared soft and easy to bully, true to her name, like a soft peach, but in reality, she was very clear-headed.
If there were any chaotic “real and fake heiress battling” plotline, she would immediately say “no!”
Or unknown to her any arranged fiancé scenario, she would also say “no!”
What’s more, if her relatives were to scorn her, Sierra Summers would definitely say “no!” even more fervently.
Sierra was perfectly capable and would rather not get involved in any displeasing matters, especially when her grandma treated her so well.
But indeed, life wasn’t a novel plot.
Her family loved her dearly and felt very guilty.
Though there was certainly a real and fake heiress situation, it wasn’t melodramatic to the point of a showdown between them.
When Sierra returned to the Summers Family, the fake heiress had already agreed to study abroad.
Her brother told her not to dwell on it or feel indebted.
The fake heiress had known from the start that being in the Summers Family was a mutually beneficial arrangement.
The fake heiress’s parents were at the end of their rope, and because back then she somewhat resembled Sierra Summers, Evan Summers didn’t want Julia Jennings to cry every day and made a fair trade with that family.
They even signed a contract.
The Summers Family would support her without condition, hoping she could comfort and accompany Julia Jennings, but on the condition that when Sierra Summers returned, she must leave.
Ethan Summers couldn’t help but complain to Sierra about what a rotten idea it was.
His mom wasn’t blind, she could recognize her own child.
But that child was truly pitiful; when adopted, she was already eight years old, hadn’t attended school, and barely spoke.
She was as thin as four-year-old Sierra Summers.
Julia Jennings didn’t have the heart to send her back.
Thus, it remained that way until the day Sierra Summers was found.